The rules of thriller writing are leading authors to the Arctic

The Cold War produced some of the great classics of British spy fiction. From the gadgets and babes with exotic Eastern European accents of the James Bond books, to the non-stop action of Alistair MacLean or the dark treachery of John Le Carré and the intricate office politics of Len Deighton, it served as the perfect vehicle for just about every type of story a writer could imagine.